Proms 2013 Prom 74: Vienna Philharmonic

Prom 74: Vienna Philharmonic

19:30
Fri 6 Sep 2013
Royal Albert Hall

Lorin Maazel conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Bruckner’s monumental Eighth Symphony. Klaus Sonnleitner – the present-day successor to Bruckner as organist at St Florian’s Abbey in Linz – sets the scene with a sequence of works by Bach, one of Bruckner’s idols.

Lorin Maazel conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Bruckner’s monumental Eighth Symphony. Klaus Sonnleitner – the present-day successor to Bruckner as organist at St Florian’s Abbey in Linz – sets the scene with a sequence of works by Bach, one of Bruckner’s idols.

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About this event

Who better to open tonight’s Prom than Klaus Sonnleitner, present-day organist at St Florian’s Abbey, Linz, where Bruckner himself became organist almost 160 years ago.

Lorin Maazel conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, a vivid realisation of the self-doubting composer’s lifelong ambition to build upon the legacies of Beethoven, Schubert and Wagner.